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At the beginning of one of the Indiana Jones movies, Indy is running through the jungle, boulders rolling behind him, and among the jungle sounds is a clearly audible Willow Ptarmigan! I think Lucas put that in as an inside joke.

Mark Miller
Hillsboro, OR
miller97124 at lycos.com
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On Thu, 9 Nov 2000 22:23:47
ian paulsen wrote:
>HI ALL:
> Someone asked about this.
>
>Ian "Birdbooker" Paulsen
>Bainbridge Is., WA, USA
>ipaulsen at linknet.kitsap.lib.wa.us
>"Rallidae all the way"
>
>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 00:01:21 EST
>From: David R. Ferry <DRFerry at AOL.COM>
>To: BIRDCHAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU
>Subject: [BIRDCHAT] Charlie's Angels and the Pygmy Nuthatch?
>
>No one will ever say that Charlie's Angels will give Gone With The Wind
>competition in the all-time greatest movie list, but at least it supplied 92
>minutes of cheesy fun. Until, that is, a strange looking oriole lands on the
>window ledge of the old stone mansion in which Bill Murray is imprisoned.
>
>The oriole, looking sort of like a Scott's with a really ugly bill, hangs
>around Murray for no apparent reason. Murray eventually remebers he has a
>tiny transmitter attached to one of his molars, allowing him to talk to .
>Cameron Diaz via the molar phone.
>
>Then things get really weird. The oriole lets out a short warbled song of
>some unidentifiable species. Diaz hears this and says "That's a Pygmy
>Nuthatch! It's only found in the Carmel area! That's where Bosley [Murray]
>must be"!
>
>Puh-leez! I almost yelled out "What?!" in the theater. You'd think that
>with a $90 million budget that someone could have realized that there are at
>least 20 million birders in the USA, most of whom probably know an oriole
>from a nuthatch.
>
>Until then, the worst bird-related gaffe I had heard/seen in a movie was a
>Paraque calling in the Southeast Asian jungle in Disney's The Jungle Book.
>
>Maybe the ABA should offer its services to Hollywood as consultants to the
>ornitholigically challenged.
>
>David R Ferry
>Yucaipa, CA
>drferry at aol.com
>
>


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